The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-23

distinctly I failure.
tnoJiIBrr!oE THAT WILL pRoHIB-
GT.--.Ailant", Ga. February l3-J. G.
!3c:scr, who WAS fined fifty dollars in
the Police COurt fo- violating the pro-
hlh;tion Jaws several weeks ago, ap-
pealed to the City Court, and being
convicted to-day. was fined one thou
sand dollars by Judge Howard Van
Epps.
The recent death OF DIR. William
Perry, of Exeter, n. H., has left only
one survivor Of the party that was
with Fulton on his first steamboat voy-
age, in the person Of Col. George L.
Perkins, Of Norwich, Conn.,, who at
ninety-eight years old, is the active
and energetic treasurer of the Nor
wich and Worcester Railroad.
The editor of the Orcgonion, the
leadiug Republican paper in Oregon,
who served in the ranks of the Union
Army, has declared that he knows of
his own knowledge that ''since the
passage of the arrears of pension act
about every shirk and utterly worth
less veteran of his brigade has been a
successful applicant for pension"
EvANGELIsM.-It is estimated that
209, 600 men in Great Britain are de-
prived entirely of Sunday rest by the
carrying on Of Sunday traffic. The
Anti-Sunday Travelling Union, with
headquarters in London, is doing
what it can to remedy the evil by the
publication of numerous tracts urging
Christians everywhere to discourage
Sunday travel.
H. G. Scudday, ESQ.,, of Anderson,
who was a member of the Legislature
for several years, has closed up his
law office, and will devote his life in
the future to evangelistic work, in
connection with the Y. NJ. G. A. Mr..
Scndday is young man of fine ta-
Tents, and will make an excellent
evangelist. An important commune
cation from him will be found in all
other column.-Baptist Courier.
LONDON, February 10. "A mass
meeting was held at Dartfort today
to make arrangements for the Queens
Jubilee. The proceedings were turbu-
lent, owing to the opposition of a
large number of Radicals. The play
ing of the Queens anthem was re-
ceived with Kisses and shonts of de-
rision. Finally, committee on a.
engagements was nominated in spite of
the protests Of the bulk Of those pres
ent.
According to the recent official state
ments made by General Booth the Sal
vation Army is now just twenty-five
years old. Forthe first twelve years
of its organization it made small all
vance; but during the last few years
the progress has been marvellous, inso-
much that the number of corps has
increased from twenty-eight to siX-
teen hundred, and the salaried officers
from thirty-siX to four thousand; and
the Army flag floats in twelve different
countries.
Concerning the dread of European
war the Spectator observes ut is no
adventure, no short and sharp cam
paign, of which the nations are dream
ing, but that gigantic calamity,
European war; in which whole ma
tions will be engaged, and first-class
armies almost as large rs peoples will
slaughter one another. and the indus
try of quarter of the globe will be
mortgaged tor half q century. Tt is
a whole continent which will be in
volved, and that the continent upon
which the progress of the world de-
pends. Europe, without wishing war,
is listening for it,"
The loss of cattle in Montana, near
Fort Assinaboine. is estimated at 95
per cent. Sixty dollars is refused for
u ton Of coal, and green willow poles
are selling at S14 load. Flour and
oil are also scarce.
Let us leave off singing about the
'sweet bye and bye" and sing about
the sweet now and now.
Bishop Wilson left China for home
December l. He will return by way
Of India and Europe.
Heaven is Just the other side of
where a man has done his. level best
through and through.
There is nothing on earth worse
than selfshness, and hell is nothing
but selfishness OIL fire.
A volcano has appeared near Buka,
or the Caspian sea, throwing out mud
and column of fire.
There is nothing like fighting-in
good cause and with a Christian spir-
it. st. Paul was q great fighter. He
draws his favorite figures from the
militant source: $50 fight I, not as
one that beateth the air." again,
Eight the good fight" and after
numerous illustrations of this sort, he
winds up his glorious career with-"I
have fought a good ght.n-Bishop
II. ~ Nc7yerie, Nashville, Tenn.
A co1ored boy mt Newbern, N. c.,
was bitten by a rattlesnake the other
day, and there being 10 doctors access
sible. his companions ding hole in
the ground and placed both legs in it
up to the hips, packing the mud Sc
currly around him. The poison was
extracted and The boy is now 4 bout
welI.-Er.
At Gainesville, Florida, Revs. J. b.
Culpepper and Crumpler, of South
Georgia Conference. are holding u
wonderful meeting. There have been
50 far 800 conversions reported, and
100 accessions the Church.
Mrs. Josie Campbell, widow OF one
of our Southern Methodist ministers,
md member of Trinity church in
Los Angeles, has been accepted by
he Woman's Board, as missionary
to China.
John B. Crenshaw and other
Friends of Richmond, Va, presented
. petition to Governor Lee, First mo.
10Th, to commute the sentence of Clu-
rerius, then lying under sentence of